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ArticleCancer epidemiology2018

Diagnosing cancer in patients with 'non-alarm' symptoms: Learning from diagnostic care innovations in Denmark.

Alice S Forster, Cristina Renzi, Georgios Lyratzopoulos

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Article in Cancer epidemiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Associations of Symptom Clusters and Health Outcomes in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the St Jude Lifetime Cohort Study.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2023
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  7. Rapid Diagnostic Centres and early cancer diagnosis.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021
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  13. The elusive diagnosis of cancer: testing times.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alice S ForsterResearch Department of Behavioural Science and Health, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. Electronic address: alice.forster@ucl.ac.uk.
Cristina RenziResearch Department of Behavioural Science and Health, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
Georgios LyratzopoulosResearch Department of Behavioural Science and Health, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 17429Cancer Research UK 18180Cancer Research UK 18667Cancer Research UK C18081/A18180Cancer Research UK C49896/A17429Cancer Research UK C8640/A23385
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cancer patient pathwayDiagnostic yieldNon-specific symptoms

Identifiers

PMID29702426
PMCPMC6002621

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